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 going by, she had all the difficulty in the world to refrain fallng upon them, and so the Prince would never tell her one word.

But when the King was dead, which happened about two years afterwards, and he saw himself Lord and Master, he then openly declared his marriage, and went in great ceremony to conduct his Queen to the palace They made a very magnificent entry into the capital city, she riding in a triumphal cart with her two children beside her.

Some time after the King went to make war with the emperor Cantalabute, his neighbour.

He left the government of the kingdom to the Queen his Mother, and earnestly recommended to her the care of his wife and children.

As soon as he was departed, the Queen sent for her daugter in-law to come to her, and then sent her to a country-house among the woods, that she might with more ease, and secrecy gratify her inclinations.

Some few days after she went to this country-house herself, and calling, for the clerk of the kitchen, she said to